Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-25
SHOCKING PARRlCIDB.
DANIEL HAYES SLABS AND KILLS
HIS FATHER.
One of the Most Causeless Murders
that Has Yet Occurred in
San Francisco.
Is Z Bulletin DECEMBER 9th l


at the California Cracker Companys fac
tory, corner Broadway and Battery streets,
was fatally stabbed between and 10 clock
this morning by his son, Daniel Hayes.
The tragedy occurred on Valparaiso street, a
short street running from Taylor to Jones
streets, between Filbert and Greenwich.
The house of the Hayes family is at
Roach street, short street which inter-
sects Valparaiso street, running from Filbert
to Greenwich streets. Father and son, it
appears, had some harsh words together
concerning the fire while eating breakfast.
The son seized q large bread knife from the
table and the Mther fled into the street.
The son pursued and both ran the distance
of an ordinary block, turning into Valpa-
riso street before the son caught up with
his father and gave him one fatal stab in
the small of the back, on the right side.
Young Hayes then turned about and went
back to the house.
John l.. Williams, young man who
lives at Gl33 Lombard street, was going up
Roach street to Hayes house to collect a
bill, when he saw the men run out, the son
chasing the father. When young HAYES
came back, couple of minutes after, he
looked angry and excited and was swing
ing the long knife he held in his hand
. Amt you ashamed of yourself to treat
your father =" said Williams to the muir
derer, ignorant then that the son had
stabbed his father.
Eve had enough of it. I've stood this
as long as I'm going to, said young Hayes
excitedly, as he passed into the house.
Passing on into Valparaiso street, Will
Jams saw blood in the street and followeda
trail into the basement cellar of the house
No. ia, the residence of Captain Charles
Reel. There on the shavings and rubbish
of the place. evidently used as a carpenter
shop, lay Hayes the elder. A moments
examination satisfied Williams that the
man was dead. The clothing was soaked
in blood which had poured from the deep
wound in the back. Captain Reel and
Williams consulted together, and one of
them ran for DR.. Wise, at No. 623 Filbert
street. The doctor came immediatelv-it
was then about 10 oclock-but he quickly
saw that the man was beyond all medical
aid
That fellow did this, and we've got 10
get him." said Williams to Captain Reel
The mariner assented, and together they
walked rapidly down to the Hayes house.
on Roach street. Young Dan HAYES was
there, and it did not take the two citizens
long to make known to him what they
came for. They accused him of the muir
der of his father, and attempted to take
him in charge. He resisted, and fought
like tiger. He is tall stalwart man.
about 2S years DID, and nearly feet in
hight. He struggled in the embrace of the
two men, but fortunately the murderous
knife or other weapon was not near, and
after time they subdued him. His fan
mel shirt was torn. and the rest of his
clothing bore marks of his fight for liberty
His captors, with their hands on his arms
and collar, marched him out of the house
and down as fast as they could to the city
prison, under the old City Hall, on Kearny
street. There he was put in a cell, and
then the two citizens told their story to the
police officers who gathered about. Police
man Joe Linskey, who has long patrolled
the district where the tragedy occurred,
was dispatched Immediately to the scene.
On the way out Linskey saw Coroner
Stanton on Union-street car, going down
to his office. and called TO him, telling him
of the case. Together they went to the
basement cellar where the dead man lay
HIS wife was there holding his head in her
arms, and crying and moaning piteously
She was so affected by the terrible tragedy
that she could tell nothing whatever OF the
circumstances leading to it,
DR.. Stanton examined the body, and
found the wound about an inch in width,
three inches from the spine. on the right
side, above the tenth lib. The keen blade
of the knife, in the physicians Judgment,
had penetrated the liver and the abdominal
cavity, and produced death by internal
hemorrhage. A crowd gathered about
Captain Reels house soon, and in it were
many friends and neighbors of the Hayes
family. They fingered about until the
Morgue wagon bore the body away.
Deceased was about 80 years of age of
medium hight and build He has six chill
dren, three daughters and three sons. One
of the boys, Joseph Hayes, is runner for
a sailor clearinghouse. Two of the
daughters are married-Mrs. Handey, the
wife of real estate dealer and Mrs. James
Boring, of 923 Filbert street. The present
Mrs. Hayes is the second wife of deceased,
and is step-mother to the son who is ac-
cused of his fathers murder.
The prisoner, when approached by a re-
porter about two hours after the tragedy,
was still excited in appearance; he walked
nervously back and forth in his cell, and
gave short replies to questions asked him.
He WAS employed in the same factory with
the "old man. as he called his father.
we We Ddu trouble all tne lilnc IOF long
while" he said but would say nothing in
detail about the incidents of the quarrel
that excited him 10 take his fathers life
He only said it was about the fire." The
knife he admitted having taken from the
table where they had been eating together.
He said he chased the "old man" about
block, but would makeno admission as to
the fatal thrust. He is an unmarried man,
and has lived here many years.
An autopsy on the body will be made,
and tomorrow afternoon Coroner Stanton
will hold an inquest.
Some of the family say that Dan Hayes,
the murderer, has not done any work for
long time though he says he has worked
and that he paid his father S. week board.
They say he has been idle, and that one
thing that provoked him to tragic frenzy
was the father talking at the table about
bummers and people who lived upon other
people. The brothers of Dan say be has
not been right in his mind for long
time.